The Nature of Public Thinking
Public deliberation is one name for the way we weigh together various approaches to solving problems and find courses of action consistent with what is valuable to the whole community.

Creating Space for Public Deliberation
Democratic practices, the things people do to govern themselves, are distinctive, yet they are just variations of the things that happen every day in communities--but without involving many citizens.

The Products of Deliberative Thinking
Public knowledge and the interaction that creates it have a very practical purpose: they change individual or popular opinion into shared public judgment.